Sakina, who is 11, maybe 12, walked with her family for 10 days after the Taliban seized her village in northern Afghanistan and burned down the local school. They are
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The death toll from rioting in South Africa rose to 45 on Tuesday as police and the military tried to halt the unrest in poor areas of two provinces that
Israeli President Yitzchak Herzog spoke Monday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The 40-minute conversation follows a years-long rift between Turkey and Israel, during which Erdogan has made numerous provocative comments about the Jewish state and has courted Hamas. During Operation Guardian of the Walls, Erdogan, who hosts Hamas’ headquarters in Turkey, claimed that Israel […]
Federal regulators are giving state prisons across the country more technological options to combat contraband cellphones, which prison officials have long said represent the greatest security threat behind bars. The Federal Communications Commission had been set to discuss “taking steps to combat contraband wireless devices in correctional facilities” during a meeting Tuesday, but officials said […]
Airport officials facing jet fuel shortages are concerned they’ll have to wave off planes and helicopters that drop fire retardants during what could be a ferocious wildfire season, potentially endangering surrounding communities. Sporadic shortages at some tanker bases in Oregon and Utah have already been reported. The worry is that multiple bases go dry simultaneously […]
After Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor and his wife received two doses of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine in Nigeria, they assumed they would be free to travel this summer to a European destination of their choice. They were wrong. The couple — and millions of other people vaccinated through a U.N.-backed effort — could find themselves barred from […]
Plotted to block the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory: Check. Discussed bringing weapons into Washington to aid in the plan: Check. Succeeded with co-rioters, if only temporarily, in stopping Congress from carrying out a vital constitutional duty: Check. Accusations against Jan. 6 rioter Thomas Caldwell certainly seem to fit the charge of sedition as […]
A Manhattan jury on Tuesday convicted a Chicago banker of criminal charges for enabling Paul Manafort to get $16 million in loans before the former campaign manager for ex-President Donald
For decades, Jewish baseball fans have looked to Sandy Koufax as a role model for refusing to pitch in game one of the 1965 World Series because it fell on
Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday ruled that gender-segregated courses in higher education are legal, upholding the policy of the Council for Higher Education. Petitions against gender-segregated classes were filed in
Wildfires that torched homes and forced thousands to evacuate burned across 10 parched Western states on Tuesday, and the largest, in Oregon, threatened a portion of California’s power supply. Nearly 60 wildfires tore through bone-dry timber and brush from Alaska to Wyoming, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Arizona, Idaho and Montana accounted for […]
The death toll from a fire that swept through a hospital coronavirus ward in Iraq climbed to 92 on Tuesday as anguished relatives buried their loved ones and lashed out at the government over the country’s second such disaster in less than three months. Health officials said scores of others were injured in the blaze […]
Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit made a decision to suspend the criminal investigations of the Meron disaster until the state commission of inquiry completes its investigation. The decision, which was reached following
Don’t miss out on the historic bracha: “A long and good life” Maran HaGaon R’ Chaim Kanievsky shlit”a in a rare letter to help one of his students who recently
The federal government’s count of the COVID-19 death toll in New York has 11,000 more victims than the tally publicized by the administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which has stuck with a far more conservative approach to counting virus deaths. The discrepancy in death counts continued to widen this year, according to an Associated Press […]
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid spoke to the EU Foreign Affairs Council on Monday, expressing support for a two-state solution and emphasizing his desire for a new start in Israel-EU relations through their “shared” liberal values. Lapid was the first Israeli government official to address the council since Tzipi Livni in 2008. “It is no secret […]
So many people are waiting. Waiting for so many things. Children, shidduchim, parnassah, refuos, yeshuos… We are all waiting for something. Waiting changes who we are. It makes us better
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday ordered all French health care workers to get virus vaccine shots by Sept. 15 and urged all of his compatriots to get vaccinated as soon as possible, to fight resurgent infections that are threatening the country’s economic recovery. In a televised address, Macron also mandated special COVID-19 passes for […]
President Joe Biden aimed to lay out the “moral case” for voting rights Tuesday as Texas Democrats took dramatic action to stymie their state’s latest effort in a nationwide Republican push to tighten ballot restrictions. Biden has proclaimed protecting ballot access the central cause of his presidency. But the White House has faced sharp criticism […]
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